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Category Archives: Technology
First impressions of Galaxy Tab by a developer
Seth Clifford, CIO of Nickelfish and his thoughts on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Physically, the 10.1 is a great feeling device in the hand. Thinner and lighter than you expect it to be, with a gorgeous screen and all the requisite hardware checkboxes filled. I’m not sure how I feel about the 16:9 frame, though. No, scratch that, I’m pretty sure I don’t like it.
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Geek ludites
An article by Watts Martin about the direction the industry is moving towards: a ‘app centric’ invisible computer model. Refers to the idea that you don’t know where your DVR, Phone or game console stores it’s files. “Hey, this works. Let’s do it. Sorry, everyone who liked freedom and openness and apple pie and puppies. American computer users prefer fascism!”
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What is that infernal ticking noise?
So I woke up this morning to a loud clicking noise. I went to my computer to find it in a loop trying to park my hard drive that contains all my irreplaceable data. This is the drive I had just copied all my irreplaceable data onto because my backup drive had failed. I shut down the computer but I can only hope and pray that when I next start the computer the drive comes up again.
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Facetime
My brother has one of the new iPod touches that supports facetime. The inconvenient thing about facetime is that calls can only be made over the wifi network. If he tries to call me but I’m not at home, my phone still rings and then advises me that it was unable to make the connection or I get a missed facetime call. Very odd that it would ring anyhow but not allow the connect. Why ring at all?
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Oh Microsoft…
The more things change the more things stay the same. 20 years in and I still have to restart my computer for an update to some blogging software?
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iPhone 4 crash
My iPhone 4 crashed today. It became completely unresponsive to the power button and hard reset. I plugged it into a power source (I knew it should have at least 70% power left) but it was still unresponsive. Several hours later I performed a hard reset and the phone was working again. Why did it crash? Who knows. I’m running official software (no jailbreak here) no updates are available and the only hard-core thing I had done with the phone all day was make a phone call! I hope this doesn’t become a common occurrence with the new device. That said, I do really like the phone, the screen and it’s revised camera. But if the phone becomes completely unresponsive it really fails at it’s primary purpose.
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Apple Battery Charger
Whilst I have heard of the Apple battery charger, it has recently come to my attention due to a staff request for one at work. I have heard on the TWIT podcasts that the batteries included with the Apple battery charger are actually the same chemical make-up as the Sanyo Eneloop batteries. These batteries can retain 80 percent of their charged capacity and potentially last for up to 10 years of service life. Whilst people could just go out and buy any rechargeable batteries I think it is good there is now an option for those who will only buy products branded with a fruity label.
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Apple nerdy stuff
Unusual statement by Apple on the White iPhone 4 White models of Apple’s new iPhone® 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected. As far as I am aware there isn’t a current official statement on the availability of the 4th generation iPhone in Australia. Phone carriers are all suggesting that it will be ‘coming soon’… 37signals has released an iPad app called Draft. It is quite simple in design but by not trying to do too much it actually seems quite handy for knocking out design sketches. The price of $9.99 feels like a bit of a stretch though. Derek Powazek has posted some photos taken from his … Continue reading
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Interesting iPad info
I heard on macbreak weekly that if you use the USB kit with an ipad it will recognise & work with external audio devices such as headsets and USB soundcards for the purpose of recording audio. Not bad for a long battery audio recording device!
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